Sharp County record., 1887-08-18

a dollar ana YET "i' ""IFy
Won could not provide for them; you can
trust them in the hands Of the Goa "hG
o,,-ns all the barvests, and the herds, ana
the focks: but if you could pay the pre-
miams on a policy and neglect them' II i9
a mean thing for you to 20 up 70 Lea 0n
rbila they 90 into the pOOr-hOuse. l ou'
a. death, move into a mansion, river
front. and they move into two rooms ou
tbe fourth story of a tenement mouse IN
hack street. When they are OUT az inc
elbows and knees the thought ot your
snIendid robe in Heaven will not Keep
then, warm. The minister may preach
sn1andid sermon over your remains anu
the ouartet NAV sing like four angels IN
the droan loft. but your death will be a
svindle. You had the means to proYlue
for the comfort Of your household Wheh
Won left it. and you wickedly neglected IT,
"Ob.D saws some one, 81 have more iallh
than YOU; believe when l 90 out OF thiS
World tbe Lord will provide for them"
Go 70 Blackwelps Island 20 through all
the moor houses Of the country, and l VIII
show Won how often God provides for the
neglected children Of neglected parents
That he provides for them through puDhc
charity. As for myself, l would rather
have the Lord provide for my family IN a
private home, and through my own INDUS
try and paternal and conJugal 1al'nlui'
ness. But, says some man:
~ mean in the next ten or twenty years
70 make a great fortune, and so shall
leave my family, when go out Oh 'nlS
world, very comfortable"
| How do YOU know you are going 70 il'e
ten or twenty years? If we could look up
the highway Of the future, we would see II
crossed bv pneumonias, and pleurlsles,
and consumptions. and collidlng railroad
trains, and runaway horses, and breaking
bridges. and funeral professions. Are you
so certain you are going to live ten OF
twenty years you can warrant your mousse
hold any comfort after you go away from
them? Besides that, the vast majority oi
men die poor! Two only out Of hundred
succeed in business. Are you very GER
tain YOU are going to be one Of the two:
Rich one day. poor the next. A man IN
New York got 100000, and the money
| turned his brain, and he died in the lunatic
asylum. All his property was left With
/ the business firm, and they swamped IT,
and then the family of the insane man
was left without a dollar. In eighteen
months the prosperity, the insanity, the
insolvency and the complete domestic
ruin.
Besides that, there are men who die
solvent. who are insolvent before they get
under the ground, or before their estate Is
settled up. How soon the auctIoneers
mallet can knock the life out Of an estate.
A man thinks the property is worth 3d.
\ 900; under a forced sale it brings S',JJh.
! The business man takes advantage OF the
/ crisis and he compels the widow Of his
! deceased partner to sell out TO him at a
! ruinous price or loose all. The stock was
supposed TO be very valuable, but it has
been so "watered" that when the executor
tries TO sell it he is laughed out Of Wal
street. or the administrator is ordered by
the Surrogate to wind up the whole affair.
! The estate was supposed, at the mans
| death, to be worth So, 600; but after the in
! debtedness had been met, and the bill Of
the doctor, and the undertaken, and the
tombstone-cutter have been paid, there is
nothing left.
That means the children are TO come
home from school and 60 to work. That
means the complete hardship Of the wife,
turned out with nothing but a needle to
fight the great battle of the world. Tear
down the lambrequins, close the piano, rip
ND the Administer. sell out the wardrobe
and let the mother take a child in each
hand and trudge out into the desert Of the
world. A life insurance would have him
dered all that.
But" saws some one, 81 am man Of
small means, and l can't afford to pay the
premium"
That is sometimes a lawful and genuine
excuse, and there is no answer to it; but in
nine cases out of ten when a man SAYS
that he smokes up in cigars and drinks
down in wine, and expends in luxuries
enough money to have paid the premium
on life insurance policy which would
have kept his family from beggary when
he is dead. A man ought to put himself
| down on the strictest economy until he can
meet this Christian necessity. You have
no right to the luxuries Of life until you
| have made such provision.
| admire what was said by Rev. DR..
Guthrie, the great Scottish preacher. \
few years before his death he stood in a
public meeting and declared:
"When | came to Edinburgh the people
sometimes laughed at my blue stockings
/ and at nv cotton umbrella, and they said
/ ! looked like a common plowman, and
they derided me because lived in a house
for which paid f@5 rent year, and often
times l walked when would have been
very glad to have cab; but, gentlemen,
did all that because / wanted to pay the
premium on a life insurance that would
keep my family comfortable if l should
die"
That take to be the right expression Of
an honest, intelligent, Christian man.
| The utter Indifference Of many people on
| this important subject accounts for much
| Of the crime and pauperism Of this day.
Who are the children sweeping the cross
| ings with broken broom, and begging Of
you penny as you 60 byG Who are the
lost souls gliding under the gaslight, in
| thin shawlS: All, they are the victims Of
want; in many Of the cases the forecast Of
parents and grandparents might have
/ prevented it. God only knows how they
struggled to do right. They prayed until
the tears froze on their cheeks, they sewed
on the sack until the breaking of the day;
but they could not get enough money to
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